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Classically Cuban Concert: Music For Martí, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University

Cuban Research Institute Events

This flyer promotes the event "Classically Cuban Concert: Music for Martí".

Save The Date Classically Cuban Concert: Music For Martí, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University

Cuban Research Institute Events

This is the save the date flyer for the event "Classically Cuban Concert: Music for Martí".

Dis-Covery: Looking At The Carteles, Lecture By Alison Fraunhar, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University

Cuban Research Institute Events

This flyer promotes the event DIS-COVERY: Looking at the Carteles, Lecture by Alison Fraunhar".

Book Presentation By Lillian Guerra, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University

Cuban Research Institute Events

This flyer promotes the book presentation by Lillian Guerra at Books & Books in Coral Gables.

Race, Negrismo, And Rehabilitated Prostitutes: Self-Styled Revolutionaries, & Unintended Dissidence In The Cuban Revolution, Lecture By Lillian Guerra, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University

Cuban Research Institute Events

This flyer promotes the event Race, Negrismo, and Rehabilitated Prostitutes: Self-Styled Revolutionaries, & Unintended Dissidence in the Cuban Revolution, Lecture by Lillian Guerra".

Mius News: Maps And Imagery User Services @ Fiu Green Library: Vol. 4, Issue 1 Fall 2012, Peter Harlem

MIUS News

Florida International University's Fall 2012 Map and User Imagery Services Newsletter.

Diaspora And Development, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University

Cuban Research Institute Events

This flyer promotes the website "Diaspora and Development" (D&D), which is part of the project on "The Cuban Diaspora and the Development of the Entrepreneurial Sector in Cuba" of the Cuban Research Institute. The site wishes to contribute to the success of Cuban entrepreneurs on the Island, and of family and friends that support them from the diaspora. http://diasporaydesarrollo.com/

El Valor De Las Instituciones: El Indice De Calidad Institucional, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University

Cuban Research Institute Events

This flyer promotes the lecture "El Valor de las Instituciones: El Indice de Calidad Institucional" by Dr. Martin Krause, a Professor of Economics at the University of Buenos Aires. This event was held at Books&Books in Coral Gables,FL on September 19,2012, and was part of the "Conferencias" series by the Interamerican Institute for Democracy.

Assimilation Or Transnationalism? Evidence From The Latino National Survey For Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, And South Americans Who Immigrated To The Usa From 1958 To 2005, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University

Cuban Research Institute Events

No abstract provided.

Mercosur: The Common Market Of The South: Institutional Reality And Challenges, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University

Cuban Research Institute Events

This flyer promotes a lecture by Raquel Rodriguez on Mercosur, an economic and political agreement among Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela. Rodriguez is a renowned consultant and former Director at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Uruguay. This event was held on August 29,2012 at FIU Modesto A.Maidique Campus, DM163.

Use Of Demographic Weights To Automate The Selection Of Public Involvement Strategy Tools, Jennifer Fu, Dan Mcgillicuddy

GIS Center

No abstract provided.

Operation Pedro Pan: 50 Years Later, Rita M. Cauce

Works of the FIU Libraries

This article was written to commemorate the 50^th anniversary of Operation Pedro Pan and the subsequent Florida International University Libraries’ exhibition. It chronicles the events in Cuba and in Miami leading to Operation Pedro Pan, the largest exodus of unaccompanied children in the Western hemisphere. A total of 14,048 children arrived in the United States through Operation Pedro Pan between December 1960 and October 1962. Approximately half of the children did not have family in the United States and were taken under the care of Miami child welfare agencies. The impact of this large influx on an unprepared Miami, …

Opportunity For Fiu Undergraduate Students Inter-University Program For Latino Research: Summer Institute For Latino Public Policy, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University

Cuban Research Institute Events

This flyer promotes an event for Inter-University Program for Latino Research: Summer Institute for Latino Public Policy, where 30 young scholars convene in Washington, D.C. for a one week intensive training and orientation to public policy and legislative processes through seminars, workshops, site visits to national Organizations and meeting with Congressional representatives. This conference was held from June 17-22, 2012.

Mambomania: The Explosion Of Cuban Popular Dance Styles In The 1940s And 1950s, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University

Cuban Research Institute Events

Mambomania is a lecture by Sarah Town, recipient of the 2012 FIU Travel Grant awarded by the FIU Latin American and Caribbean Center and FIU Libraries. Town is a first year graduate student in musicology at Princeton University, with interests in popular dance music of Cuban and Latin America, popular and folkloric dance styles, and the music of Cuba's post-revolutionary vanguard. The event was held on June 1, 2012 at FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, DM 353.

La Reforma De La Economia Cubana Y Las Perspectivas De Crecimiento, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University

Cuban Research Institute Events

This flyer promotes a conference "La reforma de la economia cubana y las perspectivas de crecimiento" by Dr. Pavel Vidal. Vidal is from the Centro de Estudios de la Economia Cubana from the University of Havana. Vidal analyzed the potential of the economics field to generate economic growth.

The Popular Cuban Piano Style Of The 1940s And 1950s: A Lecture By Michael Eckroth, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University

Cuban Research Institute Events

This flyer promotes an event "The Popular Cuban Piano Style of the 1940s and 1950s", a lecture by Michael Eckroth, a recipient of the 2012 FIU Travel Grant awarded by the FIU Latin American and Caribbean Center and FIU Libraries. Eckroth's research focuses on prominent musical figures from the 1940s and 1950s such as Lili Martinez, Bebo Valdez, Jesus Valdez and Perdo "Peruchin" Justiz. The event was held on May 17,2012 at the FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus.

Aportes Del Euroafricano A Ia Cultura Musical, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University

Cuban Research Institute Events

This flyer promotes the conference "Aportes del euroafricano a la cultura musical" by Dr. Cecilio Tieles, pianist and graduate of the Paris National Conservatory and the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. The conference was held on May 10,2012 at FIU Modesto A.Maidique Campus DM100.

Diaz-Ayala Cuban And Latin American Popular Music Collection Travel Grants Now Available, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University

Cuban Research Institute Events

This flyer promotes the Diaz-Ayala Cuban & Latin American Popular Music Collection Travel Grants, with a deadline for submissions on April 13,2012. The two research travel grant awards are of up to $1500 each to offset the costs of a minimum one-week stay to use the Diaz-Ayala Collection.

A Network Model Of Observation And Imitation Of Speech, Nira Mashal, Ana Solodkin, Anthony Steven Dick, E. Elinor Chen, Steven L. Small

Department of Psychology

Much evidence has now accumulated demonstrating and quantifying the extent of shared regional brain activation for observation and execution of speech. However, the nature of the actual networks that implement these functions, i.e., both the brain regions and the connections among them, and the similarities and differences across these networks has not been elucidated. The current study aims to characterize formally a network for observation and imitation of syllables in the healthy adult brain and to compare their structure and effective connectivity. Eleven healthy participants observed or imitated audiovisual syllables spoken by a human actor. We constructed four structural equation …

Quality Of Experience Evaluation Of Voice Communication: An Affect-Based Approach, Abhishek Bhattacharya, Wanmin Wu, Zhenya Wang

School of Computing and Information Sciences

Voice communication systems such as Voice-over IP (VoIP), Public Switched Telephone Networks, and Mobile Telephone Networks, are an integral means of human tele-interaction. These systems pose distinctive challenges due to their unique characteristics such as low volume, burstiness and stringent delay/loss requirements across heterogeneous underlying network technologies. Effective quality evaluation methodologies are important for system development and refinement, particularly by adopting user feedback based measurement. Presently, most of the evaluation models are system-centric (Quality of Service or QoS-based), which questioned us to explore a user-centric (Quality of Experience or QoE-based) approach as a step towards the human-centric paradigm of system …

North American Energy Security, Edward Glab

IPPCS Colloquia

No abstract provided.

Obstacles For Security Cooperation In North America, Roberto Domínguez, Rafael Velázquez

IPPCS Colloquia

No abstract provided.

The Evolution Of Us-Mexico Labor Cooperation (1994-2010): The Naalc Institutions And Their Policy Challenges, Kimberly Nolan Garcia

IPPCS Colloquia

No abstract provided.

‘Domestic Transnationalism’: Legal Advocacy For Mexican Migrant Workers’ Rights In Canada, Christina Gabriel, Laura Macdonald

IPPCS Colloquia

No abstract provided.

Superfluousness, Institutional Failure And Immigration: Citizenship And Human Rights In Conflict In North America, Emma R. Norman

IPPCS Colloquia

No abstract provided.

The Mess They Made: How Conservatism Wrecked North America, Julián Castro-Rea

IPPCS Colloquia

No abstract provided.

What Will It Take To Build A North American Community?, Gaspare M. Genna

IPPCS Colloquia

No abstract provided.

Measuring Empathizing And Systemizing With A Large Us Sample, Daniel B. Wright, Elin M. Skagerberg

Department of Psychology

A large number of people completed one of two versions of the empathizing quotient (EQ) and systemizing quotient (SQ). One version had the negatively phrased items all re-worded. These re-worded items were answered more rapidly than the original items, and for the SQ produced a more reliable scale. Subjects gave self-assessments of empathizing and systemizing, and these were moderately correlated, r≈.6, with their respective quotients. Females had on average higher empathizing scores and males had on average higher systemizing scores. If a female-male pair was chosen at random, the female would have the higher empathizing score about two-thirds of …

Future Visions For The Cuban Research Institute At Florida International University, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University

Cuban Research Institute Events

This flyer promotes the public presentations by candidates for the position of Director at the Cuban Research Institute. Among the candidates are Alejandro M. de la Fuente, Jorge Duany, Ariana Hernandez-Reguant, and Adriana Mendez-Rodenas.

Are Marginalized Women Being Left Behind? A Population Based Study Of Institutional Births In Rural India, Paul Adamson, Karl Krupp, Bhavana Niranjankumar, Alexandra H. Freeman, Mudassir Khan, Purnima Madhivanan

Department of Epidemiology

Background

While India has made significant progress in reducing maternal mortality, attaining further declines will require increased skilled birth attendance and institutional delivery among marginalized and difficult to reach populations.

Methods

A population-based survey was carried out among 16 randomly selected rural villages in rural Mysore District in Karnataka, India between August and September 2008. All households in selected villages were enumerated and women with children 6 years of age or younger underwent an interviewer-administered questionnaire on antenatal care and institutional delivery.

Results

Institutional deliveries in rural areas of Mysore District increased from 51% to 70% between 2002 and 2008. …